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I own a first gen iPad, and I can tell you it won't be the same.

Apps will slowly stop working, and updates will be restricted to newer firmware only, meaning my only option is to delete the apps that I had been using and paid for... or heaven forbid I need to do a restore and get all of my apps back. Then it's just a lottery of luck on how many I'll be allowed to download, and that number will decrease with time.

I can understand dropping support for legacy products, but I've only had the thing a year and a half or something.
Billing has seen much worse cases. QOS is just fine too, at least on the radio segment : LTE allows dedicated bearers, each with differentiated QOS, and no one in his right mind will try VOIP on GPRS or EDGE. Backhaul QOS is currently contentious - which is why we are scrambling like mad to lay fiber everywhere, so it will only be a problem for a while. Inter-protocol handover is hairy, but it has been done before - though it is indeed a significant technical hurdle. So handing over between SIP voice and CS voice seems to be the harder problem. Has anyone seen research in that direction ?
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I'll work on combining these; as a vim neophyte I wasn't totally sure which ones might overlap. At least I got color|colorscheme.

Thanks!
Um no. Firstly, this is hugely heterosexist, as you are making statements about normative attraction and sex. Secondly, referring to women as pussy is a reduction of a person to their body parts. That is a direct objectification: removing human elements to reduce something to an object. Furthermore, this kind of statement is directly intended for one audience and one audience only: straight men. This is hugely exclusionary and sexist.
I think dressing nicely is highly underrated.

It makes you feel different. You think about yourself differently, and everyone else does too.

It's kinda fun. Everyone should try it sometime if they haven't, even if it's just wearing a collared shirt instead of a T-shirt. Try it out and see how you feel.
Then you may want to read some of the N9 reviews. Jolla is mostly staffed by people from the teams that made it happen.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/22/nokia-n9-review/

http://www.theverge.com/2011/10/22/2506376/nokia-n9-review

http://www.domusweb.it/en/design/portable-cathedrals/
Nearly the same number as the java webapp platforms out there.
This is a great idea and a solid execution.

It should automatically stick the tldr on the page if I installed the bookmark, and a tldr exists.
I'm just a lowly webapp developer, but geo-location is trivially easy in HTML5. Is there something I'm missing?
Yep. Surprisingly tacky given the appreciation of simplicity shown in Minecraft.
What is it purported to do vs. what does it actually do?
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That's a good idea! Have you thought about making Chrome/Firefox extensions as well to interface with your service? I feel like the extensions would be more integrated and provide a better user experience. I would use this service if an extension notified me that the article had been "tldr'd. Having to remember to click it is inconvenient and I will probably forget.

Overall though, it's a really good idea and I am interested to see how you flesh it out.
>I see the usual grab bag of men making excuses for misogyny in software is out in force on Hacker News:

Recurring points of view in a certain discussion? Who would've thought about that?

>* Insisting sexism is not endemic to software, it's just idiots being idiots.

Thats not an excuse. How is that justifying anything? Why do you insist otherwise? Do you have empirical evidence?

>* Insisting sexism is not endemic to software, it's just jerks being jerks.

Same as above. What are you talking about? Nobody "excuses" anything.

>* Dismissive pedantry over the claim that women are deterred from software by incidents of sexism.

A discussion? We're having a discussion? What do you mean not everybody agrees? Oh no!

>* Blaming women themselves for not going into software.
"Blaming"? Seriously?

There we go again.It's neither "blaming", nor "excusing". Obviously there might be other factors which doesn't make IT as attractive for women than other fields.

>The reason more women aren't in software is staring us right in the face but we're too busy being dismissively sexist to see it.

Are you serious? There is ONE (1) reason for that? Oh, if reality was that simple of a system!
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>>I see the usual grab bag of men making excuses for misogyny in software

You don't see the usual grab bag of anybody making excuses for their failures. Which is to basically blame everybody apart from themselves for their problems.
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He means that the semantics of Dart - including the data types provided by Dart - are different from JavaScript. This is in opposition to TypeScript, which is a superset of JavaScript, which means that it necessarily shares JavaScrips semantics.

If your example bothers you, consider that JavaScript just happens to be a target language for the Dart compiler. That is, it takes a program with Dart's semantics, and figures out how to map those to JavaScript semantics. That there is a mapping is not all that interesting, as such a mapping will exist from any Turing complete language to any other.
"The next big change in the mobile world will come from China.."

I hear this being repeated a lot, but how can one be so sure?
I wrote my first blog post on the latter topic of your comment! Well, specifically, communist design principles and constraint driving productivity and creativity: http://zan2434.tumblr.com/post/32412314207/communist-princip...
I'm going to say the reason is more simple. Opening tabs is a nicer user experience than opening up one app after another.
Cofounder here. Thx that's cool. Building the community is the true challenge you're right.
I started learning programming with K & R in January. Working through the exercises was an amazing foundation in the thought processes programming requires.

The language is simple enough that you're left with nothing to get in the way of the problem in front of you, and you're forced to think of what is happening on a very low level.

That low level understanding helped when I tried languages with more abstractions.
I've seen this mentioned several times. Is there a resource you recommend on the 'new ways'?
Asking out of curiosity, about to start a side project with C, and I do have the text mentioned.
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The key thing is that 'you don't want to hire people to write code'. Code is inventory, code has a cost, code-not-written is what you want (as much as possible).

So you need to hire a developer who knows 'how not to code', 'when not to code', how to write as little code as possible (libraries, reuse and designing things that don't take much code, clean, concise, elegant, and well-structured).

These sort of developers are indeed the best to hire - but hard to find. And, as the article points out, is not what most technical interviews test for.
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Try paying with a US dollar anywhere in western europe. I'm pretty sure you'll end up with a weird look, unless perhaps you're massively overpaying.
Where did you get the idea that they want users to upgrade the hardware yearly?
Grok is more ambitious and it is not clear when we have something practically usable out of it. I'd like something which we can have and actually use in the near future. Say, in a few months, which is possible if the project uses already existing code from Eclipse or other open source projects.
I agree that social logins are not worth it, I am usually against this things. But I think neither the fix might be worth it. You are now basically telling everyone which email addresses are in your database and which not. I am not sure this a great thing. But I would like to hear other people's opinion also since I am no expert in the topic.
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"Advanced whiteboard coding" does have its uses:

1. It checks that you still know the basics of what's required for a CS degree.

2. Quite possibly, it also checks your capacity to (re-)learn some things for preparation.

Both of these are good indications of your ability to adapt to a new technical environment.
That question, and the example in the link really threw me for a loop.

At first I understood the question as described, but then looking at the javascript code I suddenly became lost and frightened. It wasn't until I clicked "run" that I realized the code wasn't working "as is" and needed to be made to work. Then it was just a matter of adding cache to the function (at least that's what I did). I had first read the blog as "this an example of caching" not "this is an example of the starting point for the problem".

I still prefer to not have 1 "golden" question but a list of problems the interviewee can choose from. That way they can find something that matches with areas they might be more famalier with (oh crap, I haven't thought of Fibonacci in awhile so I'll take on this robot-battle-engine quiz)

On an unrelated side note I had some fun making quiz #27 pass assertions but fail the meaning of the test:

for ( var i = 0; i < array.length; i++ ) {
var d = [];
d.fn = fn;
d.fn(i);
}
With Windows Phone still sputtering, Microsoft plans to launch own smartphone
I can't see how any work gets done in this office whatsoever!
Prefer a video card setup that can drive 3 monitors over the Matrox things.

The Matrox thing will make 2 or more monitors appear as one. Under Linux you can hack xinerama to deal with this. The Mac support makes it annoying to use. I haven't tried with windows but I imagine its ok there.

But get a modern card that can drive 3 monitors. It should be eaiser.

I've been running 3 24" screens for years now. But am thinking of going to one 27.
So writing a rant now is "whistleblowing"? Can I add that to my resumee?
Not nearly as good as native for precise location. Although there's been some speculation that can be overcome, but yeah.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_psychology#Spatial_abil...
In the wide shot above the pool table, the workstations are in the background.
Hey, cofounder here. Thanks for the feedback, you are totally right the bookmarklet is a first prototype to gauge interest for the product. We will package it as browser extensions for the reasons you mentioned and other awesome ideas that we have in stock.
Touche, I guess? I took you at your word that Obama said something, not that he (purportedly) misspoke.

In any case, these aren't the same situations. The OP claims that the speaker talked about three "P's" and made it obvious what the unmentioned third P was. Or are you saying that the speaker meant to just talk about the "two Ps"?
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Downvoted for this :-0

This is clearly a way to extort money from UK businesses.
You can't choose not to register the .co.uk, so now you'll have to register the .co.uk AND the .uk.

Then there's the mess and confusion of deciding who gets the .uk when there's a dispute.

And the fun and game when johnny user gets redirected to the dodgy knock-off version or a porn site placeholder instead of my-nice-widget-company because they got confused between the .co.uk and the .uk version of the name. Good job I didn't register my-nice-widget-co.co.uk too.

Clearly Nominet was drunk... resolve my downvotes!
You are free to not change your behavior. Be a sexist asshat all you like. However, people reserve the right to call you out on that behavior for what it is: oppressive and bigoted.

I find it ironic that you are saying that people should explain their points of view to be understood by others. The article these comments are under is one such piece: an author explaining why what was said at this conference was a problem. Your response to this new information was dismissal: that what the author saying is not valid for you so you won't consider it.

For people that suffer micro-aggressions like this every day, no amount of evidence and explaining they offer is enough, and sometimes attempts to even stand up for themselves results in direct violence. It is not up to those who are being mistreated to make you change or to serve your interests -- you are in the position of privilege and have the means to learn. What you really believe is revealed in your actions: challenging those who reveal an uncomfortable truth and/or talk about their personal experience.

EDIT: I mistakenly thought that hackinthebochs was dexen, so this response is misleading. I'm leaving it intact for context.
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Set yourself up a wiki. It takes about 5 minutes and you're good to go.

Or you can use Wordpress and type each "article" as page rather than a post.
> where we previously used computers and dumbphones that lasted for years and years.

Those are some seriously rose-colored glasses you're wearing. Computers have always been replaced rapidly. For tax purposes, they depreciate to zero in 3 years, reflecting their short lifespan. From what I've seen, most people have replaced their PCs every 3 or so years and phones (including dumb phones) every 2-3 years. It's only the last few years that this cycle has slowed for PCs, as speeds have begun stagnating.

With that said, I do think it's crappy that Apple is abandoning the 1st gen iPad so rapidly, especially since they apparently don't have a meaningful story for out-of-date devices with respect to apps. There seems to be no way to provide a separate version of an app for an older OS. Instead, the user is prompted to update the app, at which point they are told that the app needs the new OS, and then it's removed. (I had this happen to my phone when iOS 5 arrived and I delayed upgrading.)
I wonder if on the HRNews.com website, women there are decrying the absence of men in HR?

Sexism is bad, and should be exterminated, but I can't help thinking that, just maybe, some jobs appeal to some sexes more than others (in the aggregate. I realise there are individual exceptions).
Same here. It seems as if the color palette is throwing people off.
Thanks for your feedback. We've just added some more unisex noses. Let me know if those work for you.

As for the hair, we're aware there are some styles missing and we have more options in the pipeline.

If you want you can send through a photo of the styles you have in mind and I'll pass it onto our illustrator.

Hope that helps.
Probably the initial synchronization happens due to vibration, which would be felt by the closest neighbor. Then the macro synchronization happens due to the table swaying.
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I agree with the ability to learn part, but do you need the basics for what's required for a CS degree? I say this as someone who does not have a CS degree, but I also don't know that many places working directly with binary trees and linked lists, though I'll admit I may not have found them.
Hey cofounder here. Thanks for your feedback. What you mention is a great feature that will be available when we'll release browser extensions.
This is an excellent reason to be a bicycle mechanic.
Pretty cool.

You might want to put a list of the day's top tl;drs on your landing page, or def. under "want some". When you roll over the title of the story, you get a floating tl;dr.

This would encourage skeptical users to do what you want them to do (drag that link up to the toolbar).
I wasn't really getting at this. Calling a black man "boy" is extremely racist and doesn't have to do with gender identity. It has to due with systematic culture destruction and oppression as a result of slavery in the United States and conditions in which black folks were placed post slavery.
It's worth pointing out that Samsung should have had this overturned a month ago when the jury made it's verdict( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/judge-cant-lift-b... ), but could not, because they appealed the initial decision back in June. That moved the jurisdiction to the federal appeals courts. After the decision came down that they did not infringe with the Tab 10.1, Koh was not able to lift the ban until the jurisdiction issues were resolved.

Given that the court date was already settled at that point, and it would take several months to go through the appeals court, this was a pretty stupid move on Samsung's lawyer's part, because there was pretty much no hope that the case would be heard, or decided, by the time that the Apple case was done. Plus, since Samsung released the Tab 2 in May(and the Apple lawsuit did not cover that device), they were hardly in a position to argue that the decision was a terrible hardship on them. So it's not like they had much of a reason to even bother appealing, other than to waste billable hours.
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Thanks for the heads up Steve. That's an interesting idea.
Nice, but I'm not spending $250 on a thermostat; I have 10 thermostats in my house.
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Agreed, I just wanted to point out that sexism is much more complicated, and that women may choose to work in fields in the face of sexism problems, both on a personal and systemic level.
For a long time now I've wondered why newspaper groups don't come together and build a common walled garden tablet. Android tablets are starting to get very cheap, why not fork android, build your own "news" app store with some very basic rules e.g.

1) only news based services + perhaps twitter & facebook for sharing
2) no free content

Newspapers offer their customers the readers at a subsidised price maybe $19.99 or similar and adopt a "tablet" first doctrine for news.

Might be a way to get people to pay for news...
Set yourself up a wiki. It takes about 5 minutes and you're good to go.

It's pretty much a wiki, as I used markdown and pandoc.

Or you can use Wordpress and type each "article" as page rather than a post.

What is the difference between a page or a post? All large essays are already their own page.
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>No production curve can ever be "fair". If you imagine that one day every living person has equal amount of bitcoins, they will be very quickly redistributed from those who doesn't care to those who do for a relatively small price. And then, when the network becomes more stable and useful, those who have sold their fair share early will whine again about being unfair distribution.

I said "fairer", not "fair". While there is no perfectly fair distribution curve, the deflationary one bitcoin uses is far worse than any other currency in existence. The very concept of one individual owning 1/4 of the entire world's supply of dollars or gold or even sea shells is absurd, because such an individual would have to be ridiculously, obscenely wealthy.

If you want a practical suggestion, simply removing the exponential halving would make a far fairer curve. People would then obtain wealth proportional to how long they'd cared about bitcoins (assuming that investments and computing power grow at approximately the same rate).

>Second: even if a lot of bitcoins are initially belong to a single person, it poses no problem. Either you hold money that nobody needs (value is very low), either you hold money that people a willing to buy from you and every day you are not selling them, your opportunity cost rises.

>1. The longer you keep the money, the longer you bear the risk of uncertainty. If your bitcoins today are worth 100K USD, there is no guarantee they will be work 1M USD next month. This creates an incentive to sell earlier.

But they're inherently deflationary, so actually you gain money the longer you hold them. If you have 4 million bitcoins now, you can guarantee that you will always have at least 5% of the entire bitcoin economy, and economies generally grow.

>2. Each successive act of selling naturally lowers the price as supply is increased. So if you start selling your stash, the remaining part will be worth less (or will grow in value slower and slower)

>3. Generally, you cannot sell in bulk. If people are trading 1 BTC for 10 USD, it does not mean that somebody will buy 1000 BTC for 10000 USD. There necessarily be a discount or simply nobody will spend 10K USD at once. This returns us to points #1 and #2.

Sure, you'd have to ration them out over time and not spend them all at once, like an arab prince who owns millions of barrels of oil. Doesn't make you any less wealthy, just means your assets are not entirely liquid.

>So even if Satoshi had a lot of bitcoins initially, he has either sold significant part of them already, or will be able to "disturb" the market by selling them at once only to his own great expense.

I'm not worried about him disturbing the market. I'm worried about concentrating an enormous amount of wealth in his hands. You can say he and other early adopters deserve some profit from creating the system, and I'll agree with you. But 1/2 of the entire future economy being concentrated in the hands of so few is ridiculous.
Generators are similarly confusing to visualize...
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I usually complain about apps being available to one platform instead of being webapps or at least having some API to avoid cutting out all the other users, but at least this time I see the reasoning behind it. You take a photo, it tells you what it sees. Nice, how does it do it? any chance of seeing it on other platforms?
So iPad 1 users should have to jailbreak their iPad to get to fully utilize it longer than 2 years? I agree completely that they could at least give it a stable OS (and apps!) but "jailbreak" should never be on a list of generic end-user steps to use your hardware.
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I've been testing it out and I like it so far. I personally don't enjoy writing JavaScript in text editors and the tools like PHPStorm, while being decent don't really give me the slick development environments that I've come to enjoy.

Since I do a lot of Windows and .NET web app development for my day job, I really enjoy the fact that Microsoft is putting a concerted effort into not only adding more support for JavaScript, but also for looking at the state of JavaScript and looking to improve the experience for people like me.

In Anders introduction to TypeScript, he mentions the gap between .NET development and JavaScript and hints that this is just the beginning of bridging that gap.

Rather than being a language that hides the underlying structure (a la ASP and ASP.NET) it is much closer to native JavaScript development. I'm really excited to see where this might go and have my fingers crossed that it only improves the state of JavaScript development.
Mono is now backed by Xamarin. They got something like 12M in VC funding this summer and appear to be on fire. From what I've seen, the future of cross platform .NET looks great.
Nothing is stopping anyone from writing an iTunes syncing client though. Apple has an approved method for syncing playlists and songs (though not the DRMed videos). DoubleTwist has been doing it for years. Palm got screwed over because they weren't using the approved method, and were trying to pose as an iPod. So it might not be developed directly by Apple, but they do support it.